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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

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Socialism means slavery.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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